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Oregon Weighs Race-Based Vaccine Preferences
Reason ^ | January 26, 2021 | Jacob Grier

Posted on 01/27/2021 2:05:13 PM PST by karpov

States have many factors to consider when allocating their scarce vaccine doses: the age of recipients, medical conditions that put people at risk, and jobs that put workers in contact with the public, to name a few. A committee in Oregon is considering an unusual recommendation to allocate vaccines by race. The proposal is intended to address inequities but would invite legal challenges to a vaccination program that has already been off to a rocky start.

The state's COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee is a group of 27 individuals tasked with devising "a vaccine sequencing plan focused on health equity to ensure the needs of systemically affected populations, including communities of color, tribal communities and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are met." The committee's members include representatives from health providers as well as community groups such as the Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition and the Somali American Council of Oregon. Although decision making responsibility ultimately lies with the Oregon Health Authority and Governor Kate Brown, the state has pledged to follow the committee's recommendations.

The committee concluded its first meeting in early January unable to agree even on endorsing the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines. (Both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are remarkably effective.) At the most recent meeting on January 21, the committee deliberated who should be next in line for vaccinations after healthcare workers, senior care residents, teachers, and several other groups.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: covid; racialpreferences
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No wonder the left hates the phrase "All Lives Matter".
1 posted on 01/27/2021 2:05:13 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

How long before the it was made to cause black infertility or other such claim emerges?


2 posted on 01/27/2021 2:07:15 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: karpov

Back to the old paper bag test?


3 posted on 01/27/2021 2:10:25 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: karpov
The oft quoted George Orwell line from 'Animal Farm'

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

Equality Equity for all some!

4 posted on 01/27/2021 2:11:48 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: karpov

And they wonder why their vaccines are spoiling and need to be thrown out. PC is literally killing people, but those evil extremists who want to follow the Constitution are the problem.


5 posted on 01/27/2021 2:14:00 PM PST by nhbob1
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To: karpov

Any government program using the term “equity” is a race based quota system. A pig wearing lipstick is still a pig.


6 posted on 01/27/2021 2:14:19 PM PST by DugwayDuke (We deeply regret any inconveniences cause by the pandemic.)
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To: karpov

Oregon was the last state to stop Eugenics/forced sterilization. If I were of enhanced melanin, I would avoid them like the plague.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 2:14:25 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: karpov

That phony excuse for racism was made a few times as trial balloons. “The persons of color communities have had a worse surge of Covid cases due to racism.” (How??) “Disproportionate numbers of blacks get Covid. (Why??)

So save the persons of color and let the whites die? Will that be the precedent for all such matters from now on?

By the way, the singling out of one race is called “racism.”
Until taken off the books, there are many laws against racism.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 2:15:03 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: karpov

Here in Indiana, minorities are shunning the vax.
In my county it was a whole month wait, I signed up in the ‘hood and got the vax two days later.
Since the vax is funded by the fed gov, local govt has to accept all takers, even out of state.
Nurses told me it was all white people coming in.
Since I learned on FR that the Moderna will kill me in 14 days, I’ve only got 3 more left here on FR.
Love you guys!


9 posted on 01/27/2021 2:15:09 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: karpov

All those anti vaxxers have nothing to worry about


10 posted on 01/27/2021 2:19:43 PM PST by xp38
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To: nascarnation

I am in the will, right Uncle nascarnation?


11 posted on 01/27/2021 2:20:37 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Yeah, but my kids get the 67 Camaro convertible.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 2:23:01 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Rurudyne

made to cause black infertility

OH NOES !, PP won’t allow that!


13 posted on 01/27/2021 2:23:44 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: karpov
Scientific American: "Black Americans Are Getting COVID Vaccines at Lower Rates Than White Americans"

Blacks are at much higher risk of hospitalization/death from Covid-19 and are more reluctant to take the vaccine.

Tuskegee Experiment, etc. etc. Not only do they need to allocate vaccine, they need to convince Blacks to take the vaccine.

14 posted on 01/27/2021 2:24:13 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: nhbob1

Now this is NOT due to alleging racism on this matter, as I know from personal experience many of the people in question are definitely white (my former neighbors for example) but here goes:
I heard today that Oakland County Michigan public health staff already drove to the Section 8 houses and apartments and gave the people Covid vaccine shots. These were ahead of others in the order for the “tiers” in Whitmer’s Michigan (my state) including sick and elderly people waiting for shots someday later. The Section 8’s were young and old, black and white.

My wife’s sister in NY (neighbor of Hillary) just tested positive for Covid. She was not able to get the shot earlier. Diabetic and age 70.

She owns her own house and it is not a Section 8 freebie. I pray that she makes it.


15 posted on 01/27/2021 2:24:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: karpov

Yo Oregon!

Methinks this is a great idea if you’re a racist.

5.56m


16 posted on 01/27/2021 2:24:40 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: nascarnation

“Since I learned on FR that the Moderna will kill me in 14 days, I’ve only got 3 more left here on FR.”

OMG , wasn’t paying enough attention, so guess i won’t make it to Valentine’s Day.


17 posted on 01/27/2021 2:26:03 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: DugwayDuke

Post 6..... Does Sarah Palin get credit for popularizing the phrase?


18 posted on 01/27/2021 2:26:28 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: nascarnation

We’ll put you on the memorial wall :)


19 posted on 01/27/2021 2:28:25 PM PST by xp38
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To: frank ballenger
“The persons of color communities have had a worse surge of Covid cases due to racism.” (How??) “Disproportionate numbers of blacks get Covid. (Why??)

The boilerplate/reflexive answer is "Because of of poverty and crowding".

I am a little skeptical of that explanation. Japan has a lot of crowding, and doesn't have too much COVID-19.

And poor people in the US have more living space than middle-class people in Europe.

It's not just just COVID-19 -- Blacks are more susceptible to other RNA viruses, like HIV and Hepatitis C, too.

20 posted on 01/27/2021 2:30:45 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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